The best Pierre Dux’s movies

Pierre Dux

Pierre Dux

22/10/1908- 01/12/1990
Today we present the best Pierre Dux’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Pierre Dux’s movies.
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Z

Z
8.2/10
Repression is the rule of the day in this film that skewers Greek governance of the 1960s. Z, a leftist rabble rouser, is killed in what appears to be a traffic accident. But given the political climate, the death of such a prominent activist raises troubling questions. Though it's too late to save Z's life, a postmortem examination suggests that the ruling party was behind his death. As the facts leak out, those who tell the truth pay the price for their honesty.

Is Paris Burning?

Is Paris Burning?
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaHistoryWar
  • Release: 26/10/1966
  • Character: Cerat - Alexandre Parodi
Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he cannot maintain control of the city. After much contemplation Choltitz decides to ignore his orders, enraging the Germans and giving hope to various resistance factions that the city will be liberated. Choltitz, along with Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling, helps a resistance leader organize his forces.

Famous Love Affairs

Famous Love Affairs
5.2/10
Anthology of four love stories that have some historical basis.

Three Men to Destroy

Three Men to Destroy
6.3/10
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release: 31/10/1980
  • Character: Emmerich
A man helps the victim of an auto accident, not realizing that the man has actually been shot. The men who shot him are now after the man who helped him, in order to eliminate him as a potential witness. Soon they are killing everyone he even comes in contact with in order to get him.

Heat of Desire

Heat of Desire
5.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 29/04/1981
  • Character: Rognon - un membre du Redressement National
In France in the near future, revolt and chaos erupt. A right-wing politician, Philippe Muphand, is set to take control when his lady friend Caroline walks out, announcing she will take up with the first fool she sees. The fool is Serge Laine, a professor and author of the prize-winning "Le voyage qui ne finit pas," headed to the train station for tickets to Barcelona where he and his wife will enjoy a second honeymoon and he will lecture at the university. Caroline seduces Serge, and he soon abandons wife, family, job, and honesty to embrace Caroline, the romanticism of Jack London, and murder.

Goodbye Again

Goodbye Again
7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 23/05/1961
  • Character: Maître Fleury
Middle-aged businesswoman Paula Tessier resists the advances of Philip Van der Besh, the 24-year-old son of one of her clients. But when her longtime paramour, Roger Demarest, begins yet another casual affair with a younger woman, Paula decides that two can play that game. However, it seems that society looks differently at May-December romances when the woman is the older partner.

La Lectrice

La Lectrice
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 17/08/1988
  • Character: le magistrat
Constance is a young lady who likes to read – and who likes to dream while reading - to imagine, to create images. This is what she does for «La Lectrice», a novel which tells the adventures of Marie, a young lady who likes reading so much that she decides to make a profession of it. Selected texts, Provence in wintertime, different neighbourhoods. Deviations from fiction, secret itinaries. An imaginary space penetrates the space of the town, whose streets Marie stries along, while Constance devours novel. The unknown lies behind each word.

Monsieur Vincent

Monsieur Vincent
7/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 05/11/1947
  • Character: Le chancelier Séguier
The life of Vincent de Paul, the 17th-century author and priest who founded two religious orders.

The Horse

The Horse
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 22/02/1970
  • Character: le juge d'instruction
Auguste Maroilleur, an elderly farmer, exploits 400 hectares of crop land with the help of his family, over which he rules with an iron hand. Things go awry the day he discovers one of his grandsons is involved in drug traffic. To make matters worse, the reckless youth has hidden the white powder in the Maroilleur farm. Without a moment's hesitation, Auguste gets rid of the toxic substance but, of course, the mob has different views...

The Day and the Hour

The Day and the Hour
6.5/10
  • Genre: ActionDramaWar
  • Release: 05/04/1963
  • Character: Le commissaire divisionnaire Marboz - de la Police Judiciaire
It's the spring of 1944 and Therese is in a hurry to get back to Paris. The trains aren't running from the village where she has gone to visit her father's grave and to fill two suitcases with food. Some British and American planes have been shot down and the Germans want to know where the pilots are hiding. An acquaintance has clearance to drive to Paris with a truckload of goats. After she is in the truck Therese discovers that two British pilots and an American pilot are back there with the goats. She must get the men on a train to Paris and to a safe house there, where there is no room for the American. Can she leave him at the Metro station trying to figure out the map?

Les chouans

Les chouans
6.1/10

Special Section

Special Section
7.6/10
In occupied France during the WWII, a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty criminals. Loyal judges are called in to convict them as quickly as possible.

The Grand Maneuver

The Grand Maneuver
6.7/10
Armand, a boastful womaniser, makes a bet that he can seduce any girl he wants. He soon crosses paths with a beautiful Parisian divorcee, who is nothing like anyone he has ever met before.

April Fish

April Fish
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/07/1954
  • Character: Gaston Prévost
Emile is a good mechanic whose clientele is very loyal. A bit naive, he is bamboozled by a seller who manages to sell him the full trappings of the perfect fisherman. No sooner did he regret that he bought, frightened by his wife's reaction to such expenditure. But he plans to try it ...

The Mask of the Gorilla

The Mask of the Gorilla
5.9/10
Géo Paquet, aka The Gorilla, breaks from jail. Now an escaped convict, the elite agent must infiltrate a dangerous gang working for a foreign embassy as their leader, a spy enjoying diplomatic immunity, can't be arrested by regular police.

Friends of the family

Friends of the family
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/10/1964
  • Character: Leon "Patate" Rollo
Leon Rollo whose nickname is "Patate" is an inventor adored by his wife and is daughter. He is mostly happy but his best friend Noël seems to succeed in everything he undertakes... Patate become increasingly jealous of this incredible luck.

Green Harvest

Green Harvest
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 02/12/1959
  • Character: L'aumônier du lycée
In 1943, a group of high school students decide to take action against the Nazi occupying forces. Showing courage and imagination, they manage to blow up the Kommandantur and to release hostages. But after the killing of a German soldier the Nazi police apparatus strikes back. The young resisters are arrested and two of them are condemned to death.

Girl on the Third Floor

Girl on the Third Floor
6.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 02/08/1955
  • Character: Commissaire Moret

The Pleasure of Love

The Pleasure of Love
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/04/1991
  • Character: Cornélius
Guillaume de Burlador is a private tutor who hits a low point sufficiently severe for him to contemplate a somewhat theatrical suicide. Instead he is taken off by flying boat to a mad French colonial possession bedecked by mad servants and crazy decor. Three educated and rather gorgeous women live there, and they hire him to tutor a young teenager, but more with plans to seduce him in mind.

Return at Dawn

Return at Dawn
7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 18/11/1938
  • Character: Karl Ammer
Married to Karl Ammer, the station master of Thaya, a Hungarian quiet village, Anita is a pretty young peasant who feels deeply bored. She dreams of another life while watching the daily express trains to Budapest. An incident will force her to leave her province: she has to go to Budapest to attend the funeral of an aunt and receive a share of the inheritance. After completing the formalities, Anita misses the train to go back home and then she finds herself alone in the capital. - Written by jsanchez from IMDB.com

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